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Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:49 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Neal wrote:
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I guess I am just an old dog stuck using that with which I’ve always known:
LEGO. Even if another company were in fact able to do a better job than TLG,
I doubt that I would convert.
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I guess here’s the rub:
To turn it around for a minute, suppose that MegaBloks had come out first, and
produced poor quality bricks. Then, when their patent ran out, LEGO decided to
make awesome bricks that matched the MegaBloks standard, simply because
MegaBloks at the time of LEGO’s inception happened to be the market leader.
Should LEGO have been forced to pick a different scale so that they didn’t
conflict with the MegaBlok iconic image?
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Yeah, yeah: capitalism. Though I would say that it is amoral rather than
immoral.
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True. Capitalism itself is amoral, while its practitioners can be immoral.
DaveE
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| (...) Here's a better question. If that had been the case, would anyone have even had the desire to attempt to clone MB at all? There are several different construction toy systems out there, and so far the only one I've really seen any non-bootleg (...) (15 years ago, 22-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| (...) Agreed. (...) I guess I am just an old dog stuck using that with which I've always known: LEGO. Even if another company were in fact able to do a better job than TLG, I doubt that I would convert. Yeah, yeah: capitalism. Though I would say (...) (15 years ago, 19-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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